team-based learning is designed to provide students with both conceptual and procedural knowledge, aiming to enhance active learning and critical thinking. in the present study, team-based learning and lecture methods in teaching the “hospital organization and management” course among hospital management students were compared. this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 25 undergraduate stu...

Optimization is necessary for finding appropriate solutions to a range of real life problems. Some meta-heuristic techniques, especially population-based techniques have become popular and are widely used. This paper presents a survey on a select few including genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization and artificial bee algorithm. Additionally, the survey is exten...

This paper proposes a novel hybrid t-way test generation strategy (where t indicates interaction strength), called High Level Hyper-Heuristic (HHH). HHH adopts Tabu Search as its high level meta-heuristic and leverages on the strength of four low level meta-heuristics, comprising of Teaching Learning based Optimization, Global Neighborhood Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, and Cuckoo Sear...

this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

background: research about teaching methods and students' education is an important subject which can improve the quality of education. this study was performed to compare three educational methods: teaching through lecture, presentation by small group of students, student's search and study of topics before the class. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 42 student...

Path planning of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an optimal problem in the complex combat field environment. Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO) algorithm is presented under the inspiration of the teaching-learning behavior in a classroom. In this paper, this algorithm is applied to design a path by the search angle and distance, by which a better path at higher convergence speed and s...